post by James Karmel Oral history is a great way to learn and teach history. At Harford Community College (Bel Air, Maryland), my history students participated in an exciting project during the Fall 2012 semester in a class about the 1960s. The undergraduate students conducted 17 interviews with narrators from the community, their families and […]
October 11, 1:15 – 2:45 “Popcorn sacks and elephant tracks: Oklahoma’s rich circus tradition” This plenary session will recognize and celebrate the circus heritage of a small town in southeastern Oklahoma. Historically referred to as the “Sarasota of the Southwest” and “Circus City USA,” Hugo, Oklahoma, has served as the winter home to approximately
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Each year scholarship applications submitted by selected international participants for the upcoming OHA annual meeting are reviewed by the International Committee. This year seven participants were granted scholarships. With only $3,500.00 in total to offer, the decisions on which applications to fund were difficult ones for the committee. For the past few weeks we have
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Saturday, October 12th 6:30-9:00 PM Dovie Thomason, Storyteller, Author, Indigenous Cultural Educator “Lessons from My Old People” Over 25 years ago, while at a powwow at Massachusett’s Council Oak, where Massasoit gave orders to feed the first Pilgrims, Dovie Thomason woke just before dawn to a song in an unfamiliar language. Much was unfamiliar to
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The Oral History unit of the Library and Instructional Media Services of The College of The Bahamas announces their new initiative, the “From Dat Time” Oral and Public History Institute. Read more here.
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The Charlotte Observer has published a profile of Malinda Lowery, new director of the Southern Oral History Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. Read it at their website.
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Each year scholarship applications submitted by selected international participants for the upcoming OHA annual meeting are reviewed by the International Committee. This year seven participants were granted scholarships. With only $3,500.00 in total to offer, the decisions on which applications to fund were difficult ones for the committee. Over the next few weeks we will
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The Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Oral History Section is hosting a live web chat, Lessons Learned from Boston College and the Belfast Case, on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 2pm Eastern. It features guest panelists Clifford Kuhn and Elena Danielson. For those who cannot participate live, the web chat will be available on the same page shortly after the
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Rina Benmayor was awarded a $10,000 Cal Humanities grant to construct a web-based and on-site oral history walking tour of Salinas Chinatown, drawing from more than 100 interviews that she and her oral history students have conducted with members of the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and Latino communities. Read more from The Californian.
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Friday Night: Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum Ed Linenthal, one of the leading historians of American historical memory and memorialization, is the featured speaker at our Friday evening special event. The museum and memorial site will remain open after hours so that OHA attendees may tour the site before and after Linenthal’s presentation.
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Each year scholarship applications submitted by selected international participants for the upcoming OHA annual meeting are reviewed by the International Committee. This year seven participants were granted scholarships. With only $3,500.00 in total to offer, the decisions on which applications to fund were difficult ones for the committee. Over the next few weeks we will
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Plenary Session Cross-Cultural Studies THURSDAY PLENARY, October 10 – 3:15-4:45PM “Maori tribal justice, Cherokee language preservation, and Athabascan culture in the schools: three cross-cultural studies in oral history” Moderator: William Schneider, Professor Emeritus, University of Alaska Fairbanks In this session, three speakers representing three different cultural traditions share with us how they use oral history
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